Seriously, if Republicans honestly don't have any idea that White House watermelon gardens or cartoons about shot-dead chimps related to stimulus plans are connected to historical racial stereotypes, if they really don't know and claim to be clueless ( Read more... )

I want to go dancing. I'm not meant for it, anymore -- I've nothing to wear, and I'm too fat for the stamina it requires, but I miss the sweat and the smoke and the lights and the floor of it.

That is all.

Sometime during the holiday my back went out pretty bad. I was very stir-crazy yesterday and felt vaguely okay, so Matt and I went out to go to the grocery store and the library. I was driving and I turned down a bad street and we got stuck in the snow. An awesome Good Samaritan neighbor heard our tires spinning and drove over with his Jeep and ( Read more... )

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A rare public post -

A local woman is trying to gather some money and supplies for a holiday dinner for homeless youth in Seattle. I can't contribute much this year, as money is so tight, but we're in a better place than others, and for that I am thankful.

If you'd like to contribute somehow, take a look. If you're a crafty person or getting ( Read more... )

Scene this morning in the elevator, as I am arriving at school to take a final.

Old lady: We're all going to the Plaza! [sees me hit G for the ground floor, which is where the cafe and the supplies stand are located, sneers.] Oh. You're going to get food.Me: Nope, just need coffee and a blue book for my exam ( Read more... )

I really like the person I am becoming.

Exchange at tonight's Ray Lamontagne show:

Ray: So, what do you call yourselves? Seattle-ans? Seattleites?
Guy in orchestra seating: LIBERALS!
Crowd: -laughs-
Ray: Yeah, thank GOD.

The concert was great. His voice was otherworldly. It was rockin' in parts and heart-wrenching in parts. Just how I like my Raycharles Lamontagne.

I've been thinking about this scene from one of my favorite movies, Love Actually, all day.

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(That's Hugh Grant as the newly-inaugurated Prime Minister, blowing off some steam at 10 Downing Street.)

We totally did it.

I am amazed and proud and completely just . . .

I've never felt this way before.